CHINA AND UNITED NATIONS
Sir,-I agree substantially ‘with the Points made in §S. W. Scott’s letter. Chinese suzerainty over Tibet has been _ more nominal than real during most of the six centuries since the conquest by the Yuan emperor’s armies. Much can be said both for and against present Chinese policy in Tibet. However, in the Point of View discussion I was concerned to point out that the present Government is doing only what every other Chinese Government since Khublai Khan tried to do whenever it had the power; furthermore that the Nationalist Government maintained, and has not to my knowledge ever abandoned, claims against Tibet similar to those recently exercised by Peking. So that the case of Tibet is hardly a touchstone one can rely on to determine whether or not the Peking Government has aggressive tendencies which disqualify it from occupying China’s seat in the United Nations, Like Mr Scott I am unable to believe that the spirit of the United Nations Organisation is best served by setting up discriminatory standards for admission to a comity of nations, and I made a plea for a return to the classic rules for recognition which are set out by standard writers upon international law. Under these well-known rules the Peking Government has undoubtedly the better claim to China’s seat.
H. W.
YOUREN
(Napier).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1054, 6 November 1959, Page 11
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223CHINA AND UNITED NATIONS New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1054, 6 November 1959, Page 11
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